The Washington Post reports
that for the second time in one year, the Christian Coalition has named
a new a leader and then removed him before he took office:

The Rev. Joel Hunter, pastor of a nondenominational megachurch in
Longwood, Fla., said he resigned as the coalition's incoming president
because its board of directors disagreed with his plan to broaden the
organization's agenda. In addition to opposing abortion and same-sex
marriage, Hunter, 58, wanted to take on such issues as poverty, global
warming and HIV/AIDS.

"My position is, unless we are caring as much for the vulnerable
outside the womb as inside the womb, we're not carrying out the full
message of Jesus," he said in a telephone interview yesterday. "They
began to think this might threaten their base or evaporate some of
their support, and they said they just couldn't go there."